Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — Important Pension Decision [ARTICLE]

Important Pension Decision

Washington, Oct. 55. Acting Secretary of the Interior, Joslyn has rendered a decision of the utmost importance to a large class of applicants for pensions. He holds in effect that seven years’absence may be taken as proof presumptive of a soldier’s death and such proof shall warrant the issue of a pension to his family if other requirements have been complied with. This decision is a direct reversel of the practice hitherto prevailed in the Pensin House Bureau. Posi live proof of soldier’s death was required which in many cases was impossible to produce.